Do you switch off your cellphone or turn off your cellphone?

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Aamir Tariq

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I know it is a cellphone in the USA, and it is a mobile phone in the UK, so that's not the question. However, I am interested to know what it is in Australia, a cellphone or a mobile phone or something else?

Now the main question is

"Do you switch off your cellphone?" or "Do you turn off your cellphone?"

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Aamir the Global Citizen
 
I "turn off".
 
Our Australian friends are still asleep, Aamir.
 
I'd probably use "turn off," but either phrase is acceptable.
 
I would only turn off my cell phone, possibly while mumbling to myself that cell phone is two words. :)

Most likely though, I'd turn off my phone.​ "Cell" has become redundant.
 
Our Australian friends are still asleep, Aamir.

They have a different time zone. They are 6 hours ahead of Pakistan, and 11 hours ahead of GMT. I hope to hear from them as well.
 
I turn off my phone and laptop even though the phone thinks I switch off and the computer thinks I shut down.
 
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